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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Implying that you are publicly acknowledging some of the ones you send to Amazon PDOCs are pirated, and perhaps that some or more than some of the books you don't send to Amazon PDOCs are pirated.
We don't really approve of piracy around here.
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I don't really care much about piracy one way or the other. However, when I want to read a book I buy it if I can. Not because I'm against piracy but because I'm in favor of honest business. However, there are books I can't buy as ebooks legitimately and I have no problem getting them elsewhere.
I should mention that I find it pretty difficult to read a book in any form other than as an ebook. I'm 74 and my eyes aren't what they used to be.
Anyway, I buy the vast majority of my books because most are available to buy. The few exceptions, and they are few, are otherwise unavailable. I won't apologize for this because I don't feel that it's wrong to read a book and I'd be apologizing for exactly that.
It's also worth mentioning that I've been reading ebooks since many years before you could buy them at all. Long before the internet was available to the public; long before the word "piracy" had anything to do with media, people on Compuserve were buying books and scanning them and sharing them with each other. Compuserve had a very strict and serious no-piracy policy but in those days piracy meant sharing software. They provided us space to share books. It wasn't considered wrong or immoral or piracy. It wasn't till years later that publishers knew or cared about this. They were in the paper book business. The world didn't know about ebooks yet.
Piracy concerning digital media is a fairly recent concept when you're my age. Honesty isn't a new concept and that's why I buy the books I read if someone will sell them to me.
Interestingly I had a similar discussion with someone recently here where I live, only then we were talking about profanity, which, as we know it today, is a fairly recent concept. He was going to research a biblical passage to prove that it was a sin until I explained to him that the concept didn't exist in biblical times. I retired to the bible belt and this sort of discussion comes up
sometimes.
Anyway, my real question was about whether anyone thinks I might get in trouble with Amazon by sending these books, nearly all legitimate, through Amazon's conversion.
Barry